The respondents had to answer on a 3-point ordinal scale to what extent they agreed (0 = disagree, 1 = do not know, 2 = agree) with statements, such as 'I feel fine', 'I feel quite healthy', 'I worry a lot', 'I often feel sad', 'I miss a really good friend', 'I experience an inner void'.
Not since the 2003 invasion of Iraq has American foreign policy experienced a strategic void so pervasive.
In my own artistic practice I have experienced the Void as a fountainhead of creativity.
But working in a sector that can sometimes feel akin to shark-infested waters, I found myself experiencing a kind of void several years ago, where my own capacity for making social impact should sit.
It can be especially challenging for the chief nurturer, usually mothers, who experience a deeper void after the launch (especially when facing an empty nest!).
Both groups of subjects experienced a statistically significant increase in volume voided per micturition compared to placebo (young 35 mL (SD, 33 mL), older 33 mL, SD 47 mL).
And I have sometimes thought that because my father died when I was 16 that I write in a way that's compensatory, that I write into a void that I never experienced.
"I think I filled a void.
To realize that you may have the world while still feeling as if you have nothing is to experience a closer encounter with the void than most of us are likely to have.
"Much of this stately, rather detached biography," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times of this documentary from Pierre Thoretton, "is pornography for the eye (not the body)." Of Saint Laurent's depression, he added, "To realize that you may have the world while still feeling as if you have nothing is to experience a closer encounter with the void than most of us are likely to have".
"Much of this stately, rather detached biography," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times about this documentary from Pierre Thoretton, "is pornography for the eye (not the body)." Of Saint Laurent's depression, he added, "To realize that you may have the world while still feeling as if you have nothing is to experience a closer encounter with the void than most of us are likely to have".
